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China warns more flooding to come
China has warned residents in the country's southwest to brace for another round of storms after devastating floods and landslides killed at least 177 people.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and more than 300,000 homes were damaged across the Sichuan and Chongqing regions, Xinhua said. At least 102 died in Sichuan Province and 75 in Chongqing, a municipality to the east, the Xinhua News Agency said. Sichuan's disaster relief spokesman, He Rongjun, said another 10,000 people were sick or injured. Even though the rains have stopped, meteorologists were forecasting at least three more major storms in coming weeks, He said. "We will not be moving any rescue workers from the front line so soon," He said by telephone from the provincial capital, Chengdu. More than 5,000 soldiers were taking part in the emergency efforts, and one 19-year-old recruit drowned while helping with evacuations, Xinhua said. China Central Television showed residents jostling around empty plastic pails in Dazhou -- the hardest-hit city with 89 dead -- as emergency workers filled the containers with fresh water from a giant hose. Others were clearing streets filled with garbage, furniture and household items that were left after the water receded. Electricity has been restored in the city, CCTV said, and people have been provided with accommodation and food. In Chongqing, more than US$2.4 million has been raised through donations, CCTV said. Some 200 medical workers were working in Chongqing's mountainous Kaixian county and 18 monitoring stations were being set up to guard against outbreaks of waterborne diseases, Xinhua said. Summer rains wreak havoc across the flood-prone Yangtze practically every year, with torrents rushing down denuded slopes to menace low-lying plains in central China. The floods are the deadliest natural disaster to strike the country this year. Last month, Typhoon Rananim and its aftermath killed 164 people in eastern China. |
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